Did Nuclear Fallout Kill Hollywood's Biggest Star?

Almost half of the people who worked on John Wayne’s “worst” film – The Conqueror – eventually died of cancer. Was it because the movie was shot downwind of an infamous nuclear test site? Or is there something more to the statistics?

SHOW NOTES:
https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/51789
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conqueror_(1956_film)#Production,_nuclear_incident,_and_cancer_controversy
https://people.com/archive/the-children-of-john-wayne-susan-hayward-and-dick-powell-fear-that-fallout-killed-their-parents-vol-14-no-19/
https://www.gasdetection.com/interscan-in-the-news/magazine-articles/movie-conqueror-really-cursed-look-radiation-paranoia/
https://issuu.com/utah10/docs/uhq_volume71_2003_number3/s/10328714
https://21sci-tech.com/Subscriptions/Summer-2009_ONLINE/Downwinders.pdf
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11340/health-risks-from-exposure-to-low-levels-of-ionizing-radiation
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM197902223000804
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/23/archives/utah-uneasy-over-leukemiaatomic-tests-study-government-facing.html
https://books.google.com/books?id=69E4EAAAQBAJ
https://lib.utah.edu/services/geospatial/downwinders/

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